General Cheats & Tricks Discussion

King Andreas

If you have a question (or statement) about button cheats (such as the "peds riot" cheat), tricks (such as the Ammu-Nation clip count exploit), code devices (Codebreaker, Gameshark, AR-Max), or etc that doesn't deserve a topic of it's own (or fit in with an existing topic), you could post it here instead. Just a suggestion, perhaps.

Aintgottime2bleed

Got qeustion bout cheat ( bad english hope this good topic ). I had this on PS3, at mission where need to catch/follow biker ( think OG loc ). I tried get his proofed bike, so at start i used peds come after u so he spawned at alley i zoomed thru scope i saw him off his bike, so i start catch him as suppose 2 ( he drives away and say like ' catch me ' then bike loses proof normally. But my PS3 turned of game like wtf. Then at stowaway i tried get plane by suicide and hope plane still there so putted cheat in at last moment cutscene, then pressed x button to skip, I get black screen and stays black, i can exit game thru PS3 so i think GTA froze. This happens on V1 too? At PS3 they atleast patched basketball jetpack freeze.

King Andreas

OG Loc: My understanding is Freddy's PCJ-600 loses its proofed status when he shouts: "Chase me; chase me". In this sequence, I'm guessing (by the context) that you're referring to the "bounty on your head" cheat. When I activated the cheat, he was getting off the motorcycle; simultaneously, the game crashed. Quite clearly, cause & effect (the games programming and the cheats effects) are in conflict with each other, thus the crash. You're also saying your PS3 "turned off" on its own; did I read that correctly?

Stowaway: How exactly is the suicide cheat (especially during the end cut scene) advantageous in swiping the Andromada? Doing this resulted in CJ falling normally; that was until I tried opening the parachute; CJ froze in the same position, and slowly fell to death. No black screen arose. As for v1 PS3, I don't know because I only play v1 PS2.

Regarding the basketball comment: I'm only aware of the Madd Dogg basketball bug; the bug spurred from saving at Madd Doggs mansion.

Aintgottime2bleed

Ye mostly freeze on black screen but one time my PS3 made beep sound ( like when turn PS3 of ) and i got back to mainscreen of PS3. I tried commit suicide cuz maybe if u die after it landed ( first cutscene ) and before last cutscene ( it flies up mission failed ) i thought maybe plane still there. I tried spawn vehicle fast but game freezes too when spawn in cutscene. On my old V1 PS2 gta sa if i would go basketball and use jetpack cheat THE game would freeze but not anymore at the PS3 version.

Nukey Shay

"Day 1" updates are no longer available. Server HD crash and the data is probably never coming back.

Lack of consumer interest: The PS2 platform itself has already been discontinued and the latest versions of CB were selling for a couple of bucks. No point in selling something unless it turns a profit.

Aintgottime2bleed

Hey i found a lil glitch/bug ( useless ) that i dont understand why. I tried go to liberty city thru Attrium ( nothing new just tried other way ) so i decided to speed things up by going by plane ( the 1 u buy ticked for ). so i choose second city as destination and voila im there but i failed/wasted later on so i used move faster cheat to save time. Now i bough ticked again and i skip the flight ( faster gameplay/move fast cheat on ) so i see the last part of scene ( plane lands at 2nd city ). Now weird thing im back at first city ( where i started/bought ticked ), my qeustion why wont plane work with the cheat enabled ? u see the plane land on 2nd city but after scene im not there just at startpoint. I know this useless glitch but why is this programmed like this? i dont understand, ofcourse cheats my change gameplay but this just weird.

King Andreas

In that case, RIP, Codebreaker. Pelican should consider a Codebreaker edition for the PS3.

@Aintgottime2bleed: Assuming I understood you correctly, you're claiming Liberty City is accessible via the Atrium and the airports, correct? If so, do share with us how. To answer your question about faster game-play cheat active while using the airport: my guess is it's not programmed that way, but instead just happens, presumably due to some cause & effect aspects in conflict with each other. Note: never actually tested what you described, just guessing.

Aintgottime2bleed

Normal ( no cheatdevice ) u can go liberty city by put maverick + qaud in doherty garage, then go thru ganton then land ( ghost city or how u call it ), doherty still part loaded @ u safehouse + garage then u need parachute + activate "vehicles float when hit" now hit with qaud maverick, get in maverick and fly above max height. jump out and parachute to liberty city. problem is i dont know if liberty city only loaded within 1 heaven. Thats what i tried, i speed up by gettin in ghost city thru attrium, but cant see sh*t in ghost city so annoying flying with jetpack so i bought ticked ( which got move faster glitch ). Another strange thing is if u enter/exit attrium w/o ( load ) and u outside in loaded world there will be frozen cops ( u can kill but they stand like normal ) tried recruit but they frozen. Ofcourse u need wanted to get frozen cops. Another weird thing your not able 2 spawn vehicles in ghost city but if you use police etc. vehicles there still will be spawning vigilantes in cars ( but all cars invinsible ). Strange cuz cant spawn ( game thinks u inside interior ) but the game itself can keep spawning vehicles. Why we cant ?. Another thing im 2 late to test is try get the vehicle u steal with that guy and store it in the doherty garage ( the 1 that always closed u cant use ). I forgot if that car got any proof but in ghost city u can enter the garage thru most @ right side. U do mission in ghost city ( wont be easy driving ) then u steal car out garage. Dunno if possible and if car got some special.

Aintgottime2bleed

A lil qeustion i got but prolly just stupid qeustion ( not worth topic + i just forgot alot bout SA ), Its bout the girlfriends, i remember in 2004 i had the 3 girlfriends etc. now i almost finished game and all i have is 1 girlfriend ( the 1 very close to grovestreet ), As far as i remember i got her by completing mission where u need throw molotovs thru windows of house then save her. Now i forgot all so maybe im crazy but how i get the other 2 girls, i need do some specific things to unlock them? I kinda thought u get them automaticly by just doing story line. This prolly 8yr old qeustion but if some1 can tell me this normal or my game somehow glitched ? didnt use cheats at all. Sorry for this maybe easy question but all i want to know if this is normal.

Aintgottime2bleed

Last question, bout interiors and heaven, are all interiors already found? i know alot are and there different heavens but people only did it thru ganton and since i play ps3 there no such thing as infinite height jetpack. I can get at almost out pf evry interior and now i came out the casino ( callugi whatever its called, u do missions there like 'intensive care' ). Theres a part u can legit fly jetpack but 90% of casino cant ( above max height ). Thats pretty strange cuz there on same level ( no height difference ). Same is with if im right the police station, u fly to police station is no problem but 50 feet further theres the building where at mission steal a blue print ( if im right ) that interior at like same height but if u fly from police to the blue print u get sucked down like your above max height. So in total 2 qeustions, is evry single interior found? ( never seen ppl show casino or save houses in a heaven ) and whats with this max height since 1 interior no problem but interior next to it is suddenly above max height. I dont need link bout heavens etc. cuz prolly old info and prolly have to look thru thousands of posts/replies/comments. U know the answer please tell me, if not no problem but please no topics that 8yr old that says evrything except the answer i need or i need read thru thousands of posts etc.

fnxrak

First avoid the double posting as much as possible, use the edit button, to add something to the last post instead.I really don't know much about the interior world, the only thing that I know is that it's above the normal world near the max height, which prevents you to travel in normal gameplay to some of this places like for example Liberty City that is >3000 ft I guess.So even if you enter a hidden interior you will not be able to keep your altitude when flying, so all you can do is eventually get to a lower interior, until you reach the lower floor that is still above the normal flight height, cant remember now which altitude.Here is a picture of it, might be more explanatory Black Hell - interior world

Aintgottime2bleed

Owh sorry, thought 2 whole different things so made new 1, wont happen again, Thanks for your time on the subject to help me but im 100% sure no1 said yeah we found all interiors and i guess all heaven/interiors posts are old, im not posting on 3 year old comment. U dont fully understand i think, ill explain the height problem, i think u did ganton gym yourself so u understand this " lets say ". Lets say u go thru ganton gym roof, now u can fly right, u can fly up and see different interiors there by fly towards them like brothel interior ( cuz at same height ). Now u cant fly to liberty city thru ganton with jetpack cuz liberty city is way higher ( above max fly jetpack height ). Now instead of casino i say ganton to make less confusing, at ganton u cant fly up ( cuz it at max height ) but if i walk towards the right when on interior i suddenly can fly up ( thats weird ) while on same height. Other strange thing ( police blue print version ) lets say u go thru ganton u fly and see police station so u land on. 50feet away ( + - same height ) u see blue print interior, damn gotta land on that, u start fly then cj says i hate gravity and your get sucked down like if u are above max height. I hope this story made u understand more bout what i really ment to say. Last thing, its same with ganton when u go down u soon see message 'loading' now your in wtv u call it ( ghost city ). Once u there u cant fly to ganton gym anymore cuz suddenly thats above max height now. This are 2 different qeustions but most wanna know how this max height works especially when on 1 interior u can and cant fly.

To bypass that "i hate gravity" speech, you should try strafing method, which means, you don't fly straight with jetpack, but use R2/L2 buttond while pressing X instead. I found out, that you gain height instead of fall down, while still maintaining the same speed if you fly straight but hold aim button (R1) at the same time, but i used this only outside the interior world, so I'm not sure if that works, but it would make things easier, i'll probably test it soon.

I guess you already read these topics, but i'll throw them just in case, plain bacis information:

And here's why you can't fly to some interiors that appear to be the same height, there are some places that just won't let you through if you don't use strafing method mentioned above, IIRC they were called black holes or something like that.

Fortunately there are still maps which can be used to locate these black holes:

NOTE: Interiors placed on this map are where they really are when CJ is not inside an interior, once you get inside Ganton gym and leave it with jetpack, the map is skewed a bit. If you don't know what i'm talking about, check Andromada interior from Stowaway for example - It's that red square just north of Quarry, the same place you freefall after Stowaway is completed. This is where Andromada interior really is, thus it is reccomended to put marker on map - which interior you plan to visit - when CJ isn't in interior universe yet when using this map.

If you want to see black holes and location of interiors when you are already in interior universe, click on certain heaven maps above this map, for example:

When you click on heaven "A" map, you see the brothel marker is somewhere above Denise's house, while in reality it is somewhere above Blueberry. You can also see black holes marked with red color.

Simply when using these maps, one must remember that when looking on maps of certain heavens, they're different of that one big map, which is K alligned. Heaven K is different from all other heavens in that, it's basically ground level, and is loaded in free roam - Area 69 is example. This is only 'heaven' that can be accessed after that loading screen, because it's ground level - if you get that loading screen, you already too low to reach any other heaven withour restarting, suiciding or re-entering Ganton gym marker (all markers are in K heaven - it's like normal free roam, except that walls and things aren't loaded because the game thinks you're in different heaven).

Aintgottime2bleed

Hey _mako thank for the info u got but i think what u call heaven K i call ghost city, U might be right bout the black holes but still strange. If u kno i can fly at part interior and other part u cant, ive been doing this since 2005 but forgot alot. There was this other guy saying ( dont know who ) that said like ocean or river pulls u down too. Since heaven interior isnt at same place as real interior ( like ganton interior is in las venturas ) u never really know where u realy are. The strafe thing ( L2 and R2 ) is useless unless u got infinite jetpack height i aint got. U talk bout hidden tattoo parlor ? just go thru parlor next to barber near pizza stack which Ryder tries to rob. When in tattoo parlor use superjump get out now u see other yellow marker, jump 2 it now u in hidden tattoo parlor. Easy way to see if interior is above max height is enter any interior and try fly jetpack inside, if cant then its above max height. Now check that ' calligu casino ' u see u cant fly but once u on roof u can fly at certain spot, that strange right since it was at max height. Ty for info saying save houses arent found so there more heavens + interiors out there, U can get out almost evry interior ( even andromada at mission ). all u need is npc/pedestrians in the interior. I aint got cheatdevices or mods ( PS3 ), but i would like 2 see like "casino heaven " and what other interiors out there ( in that certain heaven ). So if some has stuff like infinite height please check it out. I really didnt checked strafe + R! or L1 but normal strafe is no use u just get sucked down. But i will try and never kmew bout blackholes so thanks for info. EDIT, i tested and your strafe trick doesnt seem to work at max height ( or i doing some wrong ). Another little glitch ( offtopic aint allowed double post + not worth topic ). On the mission Ryder u need enter pizza stack ( he try rob ) then u exit pizza stack in Idlewood. Now i flyed to las venturas and enter pizza stack there, guess who shows up. Now u exit pizza stack and u in Idlewood again kinda expected that to happen when ryder entered pizza stack in las venturas.

__mako

Yeah, it could be ocean that pulls you down.The strafing R2/L2 method is and old one, tested by many people and it definately works.The straight strafing using aim button does work too, but only to a certain extent, it isn't very useful in hidden unterior universe anyway, you will get loading screen much sooner.However, if you try strafing method to bypass black holes, that are too big, you won't get through. Try looking for the smallest ones to strafe through.

Aintgottime2bleed

Ye but u talking bout flying from legit height over black holes, i was talking bout above max height too ( no tricks except cheatdevice ). i might try get over holes but not exploring that much cuz kinda see all legit interiors years ago. I only know the one place at same height at legit height level ( police station and blueprint ) so there must be a black hole or ocean/river ( if true ). I dont know how get at that police station ( the spots ) so i might try later, if u know find it fast u can try yourself with your strafe trick but above max height nothing works.

King Andreas

Cheat converters: I need your advice. After scanning my computer (haven't done so in months), I discovered Peazip gave my computer a "Trojan Horse" (whatever that is). Without Peazip, I can't open Omniconvert; without Omniconvert, I can't process cheats. Basically, I won't be able to finish my cheat database. Alternatives to Winrar (I don't want to pay for something when I can get the service for free) and Peazip (I don't want a Trojan horse), any recommendations? I found this directory, though I have no experience with any (except the two, as previously mentioned) software's.

I discovered Peazip gave my computer a "Trojan Horse" (whatever that is).

That's when a program has hidden 'soldiers' who will cause mayhem in your computer when the program is run. Also know as Malware, and a Virus. Although a true Virus will multiply itself taking over all the free space on your hard drive and memory.They are found in Free and Stolen (warez/torrent/pirated) programs,

King Andreas

Although Malwarebytes didn't specify the source (it only labelled the source a "detestable object"), my guess is it was Peazip, considering I didn't (knowingly) download anything else. They say "you get what you pay for", though they also say "the best things in life are free", so I'm not sure. I have an idea: I'm going to download it again to see if the threat returns.

OG Viking

Alternatives to Winrar (I don't want to pay for something when I can get the service for free)

I installed a version of Winrar many years ago and I didn't have to pay for it. I don't remember the version number but it was free. I only used it a couple of times and I think it worked well, I can't recall any problems. Eventually I uninstalled it because I don't need it. Windows have a built-in zipping tool and I use that instead.

A trojan is a program that may seem useful and harmless, but it is more to it than meets the eye. The pic Weasel posted is a good illustration.

Aintgottime2bleed

Ok this more a qeustion and off topic ( cuz prolly very old but i never knew ). Are all police helicopters ( i think maverick ) collision proof ( so u hit walls etc. it wont damage ). This might be as old as gta3 but i was just screwing around so i go to area51( out side ) while just started game. So i got 4 wanted stars so i hijacked the helicopter that spawned there ( i first destroyed anti air thing that normal shoot at you). So i flew up but there 2 police helicopters so i decided to crash them down by fly against them or land on it and try push it down but guess what these police helicopters wont take any damge, i used cheats but i had 3 times black smoke from bumping in police helicopter while there helicopter had no damage maybe they like 10x normal health but this not normal/fair. Anyone knew this?

0909090

I can't recall that the police helis have even slighly more health let alone being collision proof. That is certainly not true. As for helicopters in GTA III they aren't flyable, hence they don't have properties of normal vehicles. You can destroy them with rocket launcher or any other firing weapon, I heard that even pistol works but it takes forever. (This is a bit off topic though, I hope it isn't problem.

Aintgottime2bleed

Hey, i know in gta3 aint flyable but what if you like crash a car against it or use mods so u can fly and just keep fly against them ( hitting them ), you can do 1 sniper hit or bazooka and i think alot bullets eventually take them down too. I did it at SA and i had to refill my health 3 times ( with cheat else my helicopter would explode ) while police mavericks didnt even had very slightly smoke. Im talking bout npc controlled police mavericks ( ofcourse and no it was not on a mission ). I never tried on gta3 or vice city but strange that my helicopter ( the 1 at area51 ) start black smoke 3 times and police mavericks nothing, maybe there helicopter more health as the 1 i used but this didnt seemed logic, only logic is there atleast twice my health or even collision proof ( but when u steal it the proof is gone but i didnt hijacked so i dont know ).

EDIT: since no double post ill put it here.

This more of a question and i cant check myself, i was on gta SA and cj was on fire so i tried enter/hijack car but i cant do that, as far as i remember you could enter vehicles while on fire in gta but then vehicle explode, am i wrong or on V1 you can or other game im confused with?, also the put cheat on while in pause ( think esc/start button ) i thought would work but dont, why these features not in gta SA ?